throwawaysnipe
Nice template for an emotional appeal you've got there, dawg (seriously, wtf are you going for with the vernacular embellishments)
Your argument justifies malfeasance without penalty for any entity. Swap out 'Heroku' for Monsanto, Microsoft, or banks that launder money for drug cartels and read it again. See if you still buy the reasoning. If misleading and lying to customers (your words) isn't enough for a lawsuit, what is?
(Not saying Heroku is equivalent to any of the above companies, just illustrating the lack of reason in parent post).
(Source: http://www.hrw.org/world-report/2013/country-chapters/singap... . Points below are all direct quotes)
* Singapore's Internal Security Act (ISA) and Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Act permit the authorities to arrest and detain suspects for virtually unlimited periods of time without charge or judicial review.
* The Misuse of Drugs Act permits the authorities to confine suspected drug users in "rehabilitation" centers for up to three years without trial.
* Outdoor gatherings of five or more persons still require police permits. The city-state's Speakers Corner -- where people may demonstrate, perform, and hold exhibitions -- remains the only outdoor space where uncensored speech is allowed in the country.
* The Singaporean government and senior government officials have frequently brought charges of "scandalizing the court," criminal and civil defamation, and sedition to silence and even bankrupt its critics.
* Singapore's 208,000 foreign domestic workers are still excluded from the Employment Act and key labor protections, such as limits on daily work hours.
* Human rights defenders in Singapore risk being fined, imprisoned, bankrupted, and banned from traveling outside the country without government approval.
Google for 'django consulting' also turns up on first page:
What does web design have to do with the actual languages? All you've proven is that Ruby developers spend more time on HTML and CSS.
With regard to docs, as of May 2011
"With revision 31499 of trunk RDoc reports that just
under half of ruby has not even a single character of
comments with over half of the classes and modules
missing documentation"
Given finite developer resources, I'd rather have docs over shiny. The Python community has its priorities straight.
Deliberately exposing anything to the web should come with lots of... wait for it... deliberation. The npm guy is a core community member; this incident shows a lot of sloppiness and doesn't inspire faith.
Deliberate passing the buck or accidental bad choice of words?
You sound rather defeatist for someone who's on Hacker News. Here's a tip. Create a pattern of sorts, example follows:
1. Choose a keyboard sequence: say qwerhjkl
2. Pick 1 < 5 < N. Use the first N characters of the site/service, followed by N. npm3qwerhjkl
At the time of writing, nirvana has written comments on this post totalling 3931 words, most of which defend either Apple or Jobs. Don't play chess with pigeons.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HR01981:@@@L...;
tl;dr fed the troll.